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I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Port Huron
Michigan
Disgusted
Aged
Naked
Middle
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I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.
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People always have something to say about what you do and how you do it.
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Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.
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At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.
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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!
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